Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Tali Navon
An interview by and
, curator
, curator
Exploring the expressive potential of a wide variety of materials, artist Tali Navon’ s work inquires into the themes of contemporary culture, urbanism, collective memory, identity, femininity, motherhood, and the fragility and innocence of childhood. Her approach considers the vital relationship between direct experience and visual interpretation, drawing viewers into a multilayered journey. In her work Forward, that we’ ll be discussing in the following pages, she encapsulated both traditional heritage and unconventional sensitivity to trigger viewers’ perceptual parameters. One of the most impressive aspects of Navon’ s work is the way it accomplishes the difficult task of unveiling the elusive connection between the abstract and the concrete. We are very pleased to introduce our readers to her stimulating and multifaceted artistic production.
1) Hello Tali and welcome to LandEscape. We would like to start this interview with a couple of questions about your multifaceted background. You have solid formal training, having studied textiles at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, art at the Kalisher School of Art, and film at Tel Aviv University. How do these experiences influence the way you currently conceive and produce your works? And, in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate to the aesthetic problem in general?
I have been creating art for as long as I can remember, from the time I was a child. As an adult, I have always had a studio. My family has an affinity for art, especially my father and my grandmother’ s brother, who lived in Thessaloniki. I started to delve into this more seriously at the age of 16 by taking private art lessons. Later I went on to study at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, art at the Kalisher School of Art, which connected me to the world of art, and began to exhibit my work at galleries. As an artist, I found myself responding to my surroundings, to the land, to the different cultures in Israel and to how I fit into all this. In my video work, Land of promise, which was displayed at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I questioned the importance of the existence of the State of